According to a Radio Free Asia (“RFA”) report dated 9 December 2012
(“One reporter arrested after reporting about forest crime”), a journalist has been
arrested according to an order from the prosecutor of Kratie Court. Another report from RFA dated
11 December 2012, wrote that another journalist was found unconscious after
what the police described as a traffic accident. The circumstances of the
arrest, and the traffic accident, are a cause of grave concern.

Mr. Tang Try, a local journalist working for the New Decade Newspaper and a member ofKhmer
Democratic Journalist Association was arrested pursuant to an order from
the Kratie Court Prosecutor on a charge of Extortion. According to RFA, on 9
December 2012, Mr. Tang Try reported details of illegal logging being carried
out by a powerful local resident to the police. After reporting the crime, Mr.
Tang Try was arrested and he remains in prison while his colleagues are attempting
to find a lawyer to represent him.

Only one day later, on 10 December 2012, Mr. Vichey Anon, an RFA journalist
who reported Mr. Tang Try’s arrest, was found unconscious on the road connecting
Kratie and Stung Treng provinces. The circumstances of the traffic accident have
not been established as Mr. Vichey Anon remains in a coma.

“These incidents are of grave concern to
me and I would like to know more details about both of them.I would therefore like to call for
a full and proper investigation into both incidents. I would also like to take
the opportunity to gently remind the government and the authorities about the
case of Mr. Hang Serei Oudom, a journalist who was murdered in early September
2012, in which there remains no lead. I
think that journalists should receive more protection from the government as
they are the main source of information for the people. If their freedom is
suppressed, then how can they do their job properly?”

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